Two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 update for Insider Program members in the Dev channel. The build number was 26120.961, under KB5038575. At the time, the update was minor with only a few unnamed general improvements.

Today, Microsoft will roll out new features, improvements, and bug fixes for people who have the Windows 11 development channel build 26120.961 and have turned on their switch in the Windows Update section of the Settings menu to get the latest updates.

Microsoft added:

We’re rolling these out at a small percentage at first, so not everyone in the development channel with this toggle enabled will see all of these features right away. And some features may appear while others may not yet. We hope to further expand the rollout of these new features, changes and improvements and fixes with the next new build of the Dev channel. Associates will need to reboot to see if they got these features enabled.

Here is the changelog. Keep in mind that Dev Channel updates are based on the upcoming Windows 11, version 24H2.

New features are gradually rolled out to the development channel upon activation

Narrator users can now use voice access to dictate text hands-free

Narrator users can start using voice access in Windows 11 to dictate text with voice and hear what is being dictated. Additionally, you can also use voice access to give commands to Narrator. For example, “Turn on Narrator”, “Speak faster”, “Read the selection”, “Read the next line”, etc.

To know the entire list of Narrator commands supported by voice access, click the help icon (?) in the voice access bar, select “Show all commands” and select “Rainer commands”.

What will work:

• Start and set up voice access which includes downloading a speech model.
• Read a list of Voice Access and Narrator commands from the Voice Access Help menu.
• Change voice access microphone mode.
• You dictated text out loud and heard back what was dictated.

tips:

• If you are not using headphones to listen to the screen reader, the audio output from the screen reader may be picked up by the voice access microphone, leading to unwanted behavior.

Feedback: Send us feedback in the Feedback Center (WIN + F) under Accessibility > Narrator.

Auto restart for voice access and a new voice access command for Windows Search

We’re introducing automatic restart for voice access in Windows 11. This feature ensures that voice access restarts automatically if it encounters any problems, so people with mobility disabilities can get back to using voice access as quickly as possible. Customers will no longer need to rely on alternative assistive technologies or assistance from others to re-enable voice access. If voice access restarts automatically due to a crash, we make it easy to report these crashes once voice access is restarted so that the team can investigate and work on fixes.

We introduce a new command to search directly with Windows Search. Users can now say the search command “entity”; Search Windows for “Entity”; Or search for “entity” to search for the application or file they want in Windows (“entity” is replaced by whatever application or file you want to search for.)

Feedback: Send us feedback in the Feedback Center (WIN + F) under Accessibility > Voice Access.

Changes and improvements are gradually rolled into the development channel upon activation

[Start menu]

This update starts launching the new Account Manager in the Start menu. When you sign in with a Microsoft account, the new design gives you a quick view of your account benefits and makes it easier to manage your account settings.

[Windows Share]

We’re starting to roll out the ability to copy files from the Windows Share window. Just click the new copy button.

Users will now be able to generate QR codes for URLs and cloud file links through the Windows Share window to seamlessly share web pages and files between their devices. To try this in Microsoft Edge, simply click the Share button in the Edge toolbar and select “Windows Sharing Options”.

To prevent accidentally closing the Windows Sharing window, clicking outside the Windows Sharing window will no longer close it. To close the Windows Sharing window, simply click the close button in the upper right corner.

If your Microsoft account uses a Gmail address, you can now send email to yourself from the Windows Share window and receive it in your Gmail account.

[Emoji]

We’re adding support in Emoji 15.1 which introduces a small number of brand new emoji, such as horizontal and vertical head shake, phoenix, lime, brown mushrooms, and broken chain. Other changes for Emoji 15.1 include Unicode’s decision to return family combinations to symbol-like shapes. Windows chose to stick with our existing style that uses people in family combinations. We also support the new orientation updates for walking, kneeling, walking, running, manual wheelchair and motorized wheelchair. You can now choose a right-facing or the original left-facing orientation for these emojis.

[Windows Backup]

• If you have both Personalization and other Windows settings turned on under Settings > Accounts > Windows Backup, many of your voice settings (including the selected voice scheme) will be backed up and can be restored using the Windows Backup app.

[Settings]

• To ensure you don’t lose access to your Microsoft account, we’re starting to roll out a new banner with an “Add Now” button under Settings > Account to add a recovery email address if you haven’t added an address for your Microsoft account yet. It will only show if you are signed in with a Microsoft account.
• We’re starting to roll out updated visuals for the Rename Your Computer and Change Date and Time dialogs to match the Windows 11 visuals.

Patches are gradually rolled out to the development channel upon activation

[Task Manager]

• Updated the units (from MH to MT/s) for DDR speed.
• Fixed an issue where the Safely Remove Hardware option to eject USB devices would not work if Task Manager was open.
• Did some work to ensure that the task manager releases process actions quickly when terminating processes.
• Made a few more improvements to help with task manager reliability.
• We improved the performance when changing the sort order.
• Made multiple improvements to the overall accessibility of Task Manager, including improved keyboard focus, tab navigation, text scaling, item names read by screen readers, and more.
• We’ve made it a little easier to resize the task manager when trying to resize it by grabbing the top of the window.

[Graphics]

• Fixed an issue where some monitors were stuck at 60Hz refresh rate and could not be set higher even though the monitor supported it, because dynamic refresh rate was stuck.

[Multiple desktops]

• Fixed an issue where the option to set a different wallpaper on each desktop did not work.

[Other]

• Fixed an underlying issue that could lead to some apps not starting even though they’re enabled as startup apps by default.
• Fixed an underlying issue that could lead to the popup asking for permission to use location not appearing, which could lead to issues with the app not accessing the location.
• Fixed an issue that caused some affiliates to see a debugger with a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error on recent flights.

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